Team Members
Nicky Cox
Editor
A mum, an MBE and an editor of a busy newspaper – we have no idea how Nicky does it (and still manage to fit in two hours of Farmville and Café World a day). Before founding First News along with Piers Morgan back in 2006 Nicky worked at the BBC launching over 50 children&rs...
Piers Morgan
Executive Editorial Director
While you might know Piers from being a judge on Britain’s Got Talent, here’s three things that you didn’t know about him: 1. His full name is Piers Stefan Pughe-Morgan and was named after Piers Courage, a race car driver 2. His favourite football...
Gabrielle Utton
Deputy Editor
Gabrielle is our ‘Green Queen’ who writes the front page and headline news pages with Nicky as well as Green News . She's trying to get the team to keep reducing our carbon footprint and can often be found stamping on cardboard boxes and plastic bottles to flatten them! ...
Nic Williams
Web Editor
Nic likes being our Web Editor because it means that she gets to put all her geeky knowledge of the internet to good use. Nic loves animals – she has three cats called Maverick, Jupiter and Ampersand, a dog called Snoop, chickens called Victoria Peckham, Henrietta, Henrietta2, Hennyp...
Serena Lacey
Entertainment Editor
Serena has rubbed shoulders with loads of celebrities like Zac Efron , JLS , Justin Timberlake, Girls Aloud, Michael Jackson and Leona Lewis. But her favourite celeb is still Gethin Jones because ‘he is sooooo nice’. Before working at First News Serena used to wor...
Ian Eddy
Writer
As well as going by his surname to confuse people, Eddy writes about science , sport and video games for First News. His qualifications to do this include a degree in physics, some not particularly silky football skills, and many hours on his sofa. Before the launch of First N...
Kirsty Macdonald
Editorial Assistant
Kirsty is the most cheerful member of the team, even in the mornings, which is handy as she is the person you will get through to if you phone us. Though once when her son Callum (7) was off school he stepped in and answered each call with ‘Muuuuuummmm, phone call.’ Kirsty has a p...
Clare Conway
Communications Assistant
Recent graduate from Cardiff University Clare has now joined First News to be our new Communications Assistant. Five quick facts about Clare Conway... 1. She loves her GHDs – which is why her hair is always super shiny 2. She always watches antiques programmes such as Flog ...
Clare Hutchison
Communications Assistant
Clare has just finished a Business and French degree, which involved living in Paris for a year, where she ate lots of cheese and croissants and liked watching the Eiffel Tower sparkle at night. Her job as Communications Assistant means that she writes a few things for each issue and helps th...
Richard Robson
Design Manager
Rich is our design manager, which means that while we do all the writing, he has to make it look good and add all the pictures. Which isn’t always an easy job. He also goes by the name 'Mac User 5' and the poor thing doesn't get to leave his desk very much, there's just too much colouring ...